§ MR. PLATT-HIGGINS (Salford, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the provisions of the Seventh Section of the Elementary Education Act of 1870, which regulates the attendance of children during the period of religious instruction in elementary schools, he will consider the advisability of modifying the new by-law authorising the withdrawal of children from school till after the time of religious instruction is passed.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) The new form of by-law which the Board of Education have expressed themselves as willing to approve if adopted by local authorities has been designedly framed to carry out more completely the intention and effect of the section referred to in the Question.